Avocado Toast in the Morning

Breakfast is a hot dish. It’s not about cereal, bacon and eggs, omelets and toast anymore. Quick and easy alternatives are grabbing morning appetites while clever hacks are giving favorite standards fun makeovers. Using a waffle iron to prepare French toast, and slathering toasted bread with creamy avocado slices is hip and clever. Add a shrimp/pasta dish to last week’s (February 12-18, 2016) most popular recipes line up, and no one goes hungry. Here’s the week’s delicious recap.

Hip and trendy, as well as satisfying, Avocado Toast had the largest increase in page views last week

Top Search TermsWhat’s the most romantic main dish out there? For a lot of Valentine’s Day cooks it was a surf and turf combination: lobster tails and ribeye steak. The fastest-growing week-over-week search term driving traffic to the site last week was how to cook lobster tails. Other fast-moving search terms in this category included lobster tail recipes, how to cook lobster tail, broiled lobster tail, and how to boil lobster tails.

Top 10 Year-Over-Year KeywordsDinner inspiration drove top keyword searches last week (February 12-18, 2016). Home cooks were hungry for hearty dishes such as lasagna, pork chops, chicken spaghetti, fried rice and salmon. Those in the know simply searched for Allrecipes.com.